KAREN: What about stress. Did you find the job stressful?

TRUDY: Pardon?

KAREN: Was the job of a health aide stressful?

TRUDY: Oh, yeah. Definitely. Even the nurses here will say that being a nurse is stressful to them. I think. Sometimes, you can't get over things that happened. Like the little boy with that -- pulled his scalp off? For a long time I couldn't get over it.

Then one guy shot himself in the hip, a little boy. And I had to go there and get him ready to put him on a plane. Those kind of things. Really stressful.

They were things that you'd never realize could happen that happened. The drowning, the house burning, stuff like that. Then I started thinking about, “Gosh, when the guys go out hunting its dangerous.” Nobody thinks that way.

But me and Barbara used to talk to each other, tell each other things and talk together and get over it.

KAREN: Yeah, I was to say, how did you deal with this stress.

TRUDY: Pardon?

KAREN: How did you deal with this stress? What did you do to get through that.

TRUDY: Just talk to my husband. Talk to my husband and my kids. It's a lot of family thing.

We used to do -- we used to -- just me visiting with my husband and talking to him about how I feel about this and that.

Sometimes Barbara and I used to get together and I used to tell her things that I couldn't tell anybody else about my work. “Me too!” Well she started telling me her things, then we'd get over it.

But you know, no matter how much and how hard people tried to help us and teach us, there was always something forgotten and you run up against it at another date.

And wonder how do I take care of this, they never told us. And that was the difficult part of the job, was being told after the fact that this should be done, this should be that, this should be done right now.

Like when I checked the boy for that broken hip, I didn't know what to do, but I checked, but I could feel, the bone was parted from the side. You could feel it where it was broken.

So, I told them what I felt. I said: “I think he needs to go to the hospital, now, not tomorrow, now.” This happened like about 11 o'clock in the morning. So it was ok.

But there were times we'd have to stay up at night. When the babies were sick, oh, night and day I walked. Just could not be -- time on my own.